Overview
- Provides a clear assessment of fundamental concepts and theoretical formulations while also examining new insights into current scientific explorations
- Clarifies and emphasizes text by presenting worked examples throughout
- Achieves a unified approach to plasma thermodynamics by using classical and statistical concepts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 66)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics - Thermodynamics develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma thermodynamics from both classical and statistical points of view.
After a refreshment of classical thermodynamics applied to the dissociation and ionization regimes, the book invites the reader to discover the role of electronic excitation in affecting the properties of plasmas, a topic often overlooked by the thermal plasma community.
Particular attention is devoted to the problem of the divergence of the partition function of atomic species and the state-to-state approach for calculating the partition function of diatomic and polyatomic molecules. The limit of ideal gas approximation is also discussed, by introducing Debye-Huckel and virial corrections.
Throughout the book, worked examples are given in order to clarify concepts and mathematical approaches.
This book is a first of a series of three books to be published by the authors on fundamental aspects of plasma chemical physics. The next books will discuss transport and kinetics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Mario Capitelli, University of Bari, mario.capitelli@ba.imip.cnr.it
Gianpiero Colonna, IMIP CNR Bari,
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics
Book Subtitle: Thermodynamics
Authors: Mario Capitelli, Gianpiero Colonna, Antonio D'Angola
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8182-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8181-3Published: 24 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3020-9Published: 29 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8182-0Published: 02 December 2011
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 310
Topics: Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems